So I've been poking around the config files for the server, trying to get it running in offline mode, with direct IP, now that the Beta is over. I've come across this:
-Online.Environment OnlineEnvironment_Production
Now, my thinking is, the server exe will have these strings complied into it. Do you think we can reverse engineer it, find these strings, and replace OnlineEnvironment_Production with something like OnlineEnvironment_Final (A guess) and get it working 'offline'?

If we got servers working, a website would not be difficult at all.
Thing is, I never got the server working on my computer, so could someone who did try changing those values, see if it helps? My bf3, running with the shortcut above, just opens and closes after 10 seconds, so I don't know if its a server issue, or the game.

Working on this myself, you have to get Blaze authentication ok and then not error out. When you see the error you will see in the server log it restarts the server in a failed state waiting for the OK.

You got past blaze? Server sends a request to Blaze and Blaze is sending back a null.

It may be possible someone with good HEX editor or injector skills would change the null to any other number but unless this is what you did, which is all you really need to do, then it works, or you didn't get past Blaze and it doesn't work.

ok dont bite my head off yer hear me out had a idea that prob wont work but hay i have no idea how tis hole think works
ok so bf3.exe and all of the rest of the ea blote is trying to connect to blace to get theas cpp files well the server dose anyway

so if out bf3 server leatcher could still leach the .cpp server and we like use the hosts files from C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

We don't need those cpp files, we can trick the server by putting it in test mode.
However, we might need this trick to highjack the requests, see what data is requested, and give it back, so both bf3.exe and EACoreServer.exe get the 'right' data back.
This I will look into tomorrow.

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Does anyone have the files for the server ? i'm gonna try this to maybe i can help.
Just incase i missed it i'l look on the forums if anyone posted the files already just incase some troll wants to troll on my post :/